A veteran social worker once described Aotearoa's gangs to me as "organised poverty", & said working in rural communities meant working with them. The more poverty we have, the stronger gangs will get & the more this government will demonise them. Hipkins is, to put it politely, a naive fool. #nzpol
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We moved to Taff's Well six years ago. Since then we've had record floods, droughts, record-breaking heatwaves and wildfires. The woods were clear-felled because of an invasive fungus. And now the river is polluted !!! 😢 💔🏴
Hard to believe, but 91 kids died in the care of Queensland Family and Child Commission, during the 2025–26 financial year. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
'Commercial in confidence' is an accounting trick as much as it's a performative legal fiction, to wit: C-I-C is a L-I-E. Gov. is structured as if it's a business - the ultimate Public business - & a cent of Public money spent is accountable to all shareholders. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Teaching children they can say no to a hug, even from someone they love, is basic bodily autonomy. It casts no suspicion on grandparents. Dreadful response from Jim O’Callaghan and Peadar Tóibín. Children build confidence by having their boundaries respected, not by being told adults know best.
5 Cleanaway workers killed in 2 yrs. An appalling safety record & #Cleanaway is the major sponsor of #Crisafulli's Press Club lunch in the middle of Safe Work Month. Alongside the recent changes to the #IR Act & WorkCover, this raises serious ?s about this #LNP Govt's approach to workers' safety.
'But Leoni knew she had already met with gang members earlier, at what she called a whānau event, and others describe as a gang fundraiser. She knew others from her campaign team were there. She knew she’d been photographed there.' #NzPol
“Think about what never happens. A candidate photographed at a Federated Farmers breakfast is not asked to account for the nitrate in the Manawatū. A candidate at a corporate box is not asked whether he endorses the firm's tax structure.“ culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...
One of the things I always find interesting about this list is that it was produced in 1974 and not in 1964 or even 1966, after Wilson's first two election victories.
An important @greenparty.org.uk seat lost as popularity declines after a badly worded motion passed by less than 1% of the members. Instead of empowering opponents of Netanyahu the conference attendees empowered Badenoch to give him cover.
How much of the 'pointless bureaucracy' Labour are saying they will remove is actually about the social or environmental impact of business? If they are employing slave labour in China or destroying the rainforests then that reporting is essential
I already posted this from RNZ, but I'll comment on the Stuff article seeing I've read that in full. This whole "scandal" was caused by Hipkins and only him. He's the one who went all morality police on it, causing Leoni to have to lie and tow party line. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
Firefighters voice growing concerns over water supplies to tackle UK wildfires During a summer fire that destroyed homes in Stourbridge, low pressure meant filling a water carrier took 40 minutes www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
In the early 1980s, National PM Rob Muldoon met Black Power, helped them find housing and paid gangs to chop firewood. Today's National banned their patches. The gang list grew anyway: 10,478 in February, up 6.5% on a year earlier. Gangs recruit wherever hope is in short supply. #nzpol
Would that be the same Andy Burnham who TWO DAYS AGO gave the go ahead for more fossil gas to be extracted from the North Sea and the resulting greenhouse gases to push up global heating? Hypocrite.
I see an interesting cultural difference between the centre-Left in my country and elsewhere. American Dem voters: - bad poll result - redoubles effort to get the vote out in the last stretch NZ Labour voters: - bad poll result or even bad media coverage - give up and doom with 2 weeks to go
MAGAts. “We now have to worry about our kids being given transgender surgery at school”. Normals. “That doesn’t happen. But surely you should be worried about the 100-150 school shootings each year and the 5000 children shot to death each year?” MAGAts. “Nope, god bless the 2nd amendment…
superb by @mohanjdutt.bsky.social. Journalists could have told a different story. But they took the easy option of producing a moralised spectacle that requires no thinking on anyone’s part (b/ the "hand signs need no context & cannot be argued with") culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...
Wes Streeting has become the political equivalent of a group chat that everyone muted but nobody left .critics keep wondering what, exactly, he's doing in government, while quietly losing all faith that anyone at the top is actually driving the bus.
I've already reposted this, but I think it's worth dwelling on. As far as lies go - albeit watered down by "several" - this is a fairly ancient smear reminiscent of dirty tricks played by the Tory press and Tory party a century ago. In 1924, the Zinoviev letter, a forgery, was used for the same goal
……the same morning, Burnham's administration gave the go-ahead on Jackdaw, and a decision on Rosebank is next. In 2014 WM lied to 🏴 that North Sea oil and gas production was in decline. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared:….
Subsidising car use is not a responsible or intelligent policy at a time of climate collapse. And is deeply regressive - the biggest beneficiaries will be those driving 3-tonne SUVs around the Home Counties. This is cheap Focus leaflet populism.
Chris Hipkins is probably the only living person who could manage to make an entire election news cycle focus on how shit he is as a leader when the other major story is the kids hospital doing hunger games to see which kids get to survive. FHMR
As recently as Wednesday, Premier David Crisafulli pledged to take his current team to the 2028 election. With Amanda Camm's resignation today there will be a trip to the Gov at some stage for a replacement or multiple swearing-ins if it's a reshuffle. Prepare the Fernberg leaf blowers. #qldpol
There's two things Eby could have done to WIN Green support, rather than chastising them: 1. Organize and strategically withdraw candidates in ridings to share with Green (though that time has passed). 2. Promise proportional representation, make this the last election with FPTP. #bcpoli
Absolutely crackers response from the government here to an utterly milquetoast campaign.
I used to read stories about the bad actions of the police in the United States in disbelief, and be in amazement at how different policing was here in Aotearoa. Not any longer. 😞 I know there have been bad actors in the past, but recently these articles are just day after day after day. #nzpol
Steak dinner to any reporter who asks....... "Why did your parents send you to a military boarding school when you were 13 yrs old and leave you there for 5 yrs?"
Everyone's Hipkins takes are very good and thoughtful, I'm just over here stuck in a loop of "but how could you not expect people to point out all the times your party/candidates/government associated positively with gangs"
This one media release sums up everything that’s wrong with the legacy political parties: instead of visionary leadership about the long term economic and ecological and social and cultural prosperity of our nation, we get tedious fiddling around with minor accounting rules #nzpol
“An institutional certainty that this inability is neutrality” might be the most accurate description of NZ media I’ve ever read. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...
The subtext of Burnham's government is clear, from Streeting's statements about stockpiling food & water to Burnham's charity fund raising stunts, the state will no longer be there for you in times of need.
In 1988, Republicans ran the Willie Horton ad, and they still run ads featuring terrible criminals, it’s just flipped the messaging and sometimes the criminals are the nominees they are running
All this weird talking of stockpiling food and water and this weird enthusiasm for anticipation of war, yet there's always talk of benefits cuts. Yet again, I didn't expect much from Labour, but you can't afford to stockpile so your expendable is IDS level shit.
Streeting now pushing the line that you need to stockpile. Shit is coming and any money the country has it is going to be needed to pay my bungs, sorry for the good of the nation. In other words, despite all the tax you have paid, dear population, if the power goes off, you are on your own. Cheers.
People acting surprised finding out the DNC does not spend the money from their very sad text campaigns and email campaigns - you know - on the campaign, but the consultants like that prick Carville keep it.
I think conditionally supporting our veterans is horrific behavior that we should condemn. I'm noting the silent reaction of many people who claim to support the troops.
As the dust settles we see Burnham is for all practical purposes Starmer with better marketing. Fiscal rules, callous immigration policy, more gas from Jackdaw, & continued arresting of grannys & clergy with signs. And meanwhile the Green party is imploding. I feel very homeless! #r4today
strikes me that a Burnham-led government and Labour mayoralties is a bad mix - they’ll be constantly huffing each other’s farts so it’s left to threadbare local journalism and experts to point out policy failures and other shenanigans
In the blood I guess, would make a good MEP candidate as the size of the constituencies and the list means face recognition is everything and it's a cushy no stress job, Dáil needs connection to the area, celebrity can overcome that, but could he do the hard backbencher slog? #speirgorm
put simply: the people in charge of the government think that if you are Black or Brown and came to America within living memory, you should be murdered for it
Unsafe water, burning eyes and kerosene slicks: residents demand answers on River Taff leak www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I do not think that the word used by Reform-leaning voters about Kemi was "enigma" although in all fairness it may have sounded similar.
I do want to be clear, Hipkins' garbage-tier instincts aside, this whole thing is *predominantly* an overtly racist dirty politics campaign that has the rightwing coalition parties effectively coordinating with all major media outlets to try and ensure there is no change of government
At the moment I'm just breathing deeply and hoping that maybe if both the quote-unquote 'major' parties come apart at the seams, perhaps the 'minor' parties will expand in a way that means we get more of an MMP government going forward. #nzpol
Comment, @andyburnham.bsky.social? Why are these water companies being fined a pittance while they continue to make extortionate profits and the public pays? When is Labour going to get serious about taking water back into public ownership? 🤨😠😡
Cutting back services puts at least as much cost on future generations as new taxes. It should be a really easy argument to run. But really, only the Greens and TPM are. By fighting around balanced budgets and surpluses, imo Labour concede the battleground to the right. Always choose the ground.
The sad thing about Leoni meeting the gangs is that with the media putting the boot in and the opposition putting the boot in, we have another hit on another Māori wahine like Kiri Allan Enough is enough #nzpol
Trump: "Turek voted to allow schools to turn your kids transgender without informing the parents" (This never happens)
There is a direct line from the republican lie that abortions take place at term and after birth to this absurdity. Instead of doing some minimal research to debunk both lies the press has now accepted this bullshit as an alternative truth.
